Lama2 VS bruno

Based on insights and learnings from building our other Open source CLI tool called Lama2, an API Client Manager that is completely built upon Golang and has better compatibility for various OS and OS architectures, we decided to... Continue reading the full article at https://journal.hexmos.com/developer-markdown-blog-hexmos-glee/

I like to use java or nodejs to automate http tests. But I built this for my functional and testers coworkers because they don't know how to program. They have another skills. At the end I realized that dsl is faster than repetitive http calls and body parsers.

Also if you check this https://gist.github.com/jrichardsz/8f2f8c0d25af7abc1e2f1d80a... in which with one minute run, I automated several http calls. I also generate a report like karate, cucumber, etc

Nice tool bro, I will check it https://github.com/HexmosTech/Lama2 to get some ideas for my framework

PD: Your install readme is similar to mine :b . Were you inspired by NVM?

Thanks for share

Get Source File

- Github: https://github.com/HexmosTech/Lama2

Background story:

The story begins more than a year back, when our team at Hexmos wanted to collaborate on APIs in a simple and straightforward way.

Our engineering infrastructure is split into dozens of self-contained software services. We deal with 100s of internal APIs, and so felt a need for a robust workflow for defining, sharing and updating APIs within our teams.

Traditional solutions such as Postman/Insomnia implement the collaboration features within their applications, and also tend to charge a fee for collaboration. We felt using git is the right way to collaborate on APIs, rather than any custom built solution. So, in a matter of 2 days we got a regex-based prototype DSL language to store API files.

Lots of issues cropped up over time, but we kept making improvements to Lama2 as needs arose. We accumulated 100s of API files over time. Then, we decided that the tool deserves to be out there, benefiting teams that want to collaborate on APIs over git. So, to make it happen, first we invested into formalising the grammar, and implementing the DSL as a hand-written recursive descent parser. Then we invested into helpful documentation, demos and so on. Once we had the basics, we released Lama2 into the world.

Future tasks:

- Create human-friendly syntax for specifying websocket APIs, basic testing, etc

Github: https://github.com/HexmosTech/Lama2

Bruno is a Git-friendly API client. Feature-wise, what makes it stand out from other popular GUI API clients out there is that Bruno stores your collections directly in a folder on your filesystem and it's a desktop app made for offline use.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39653718 https://www.usebruno.com/

Good timing to find alternatives.

Especially once a VC gets into the fold.

We will never take VC funding. We received around 10 inbound reach outs from VCs till date and have denied funding from all of them. We will remain independent and I have written about it in detail here https://www.usebruno.com/blog/bootstrapping

> I didn't stick with Bruno. I think it was due to not having an equivalent to Postman's pre-request scripts.

Bruno has come a long way, we support pre-request scripts and a lot more

> But can it handle oauth2? I had to write a httpie script recently just to test an oauth2 api.

We have released oauth2 support, some rough edges are being polished

> Good thing it's open source. Money being involved, I don't have long term hopes for it's openness.

I understand this is a hard problem. We are fully bootstrapped and independent. We earn money via selling the Golden Edition. We will build more developer products in the long term, and the goal is to make even the golden edition features also open source in the future. In the unlikely case of me going dark (dead/incapacitated to lead the project), I have instructed our small team (2 FT employees) and my family to release our golden edition features too to the community as opensource. I am committed to this cause.

Some good links where I have discussed about opensource, freedom and monetization

- https://www.usebruno.com/blog/bootstrapping

- https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/discussions/269

If you'd like to pre-order the golden edition: https://www.usebruno.com/pricing

Thank you for all the love and kind words, HN!

Have you heard of the Bruno project? It's an open-source alternative to subscription-based API testing applications like Postman and Insomnia. It's gaining popularity and deserves more attention. Plus, since it's open-source, users can enjoy full privacy. Check it out at https://github.com/usebruno/bruno.

Now, I'm looking at trying Bruno, a new tool I heard about. Bruno has all the features you'd want, like support for websockets. What's great about Bruno is it only costs $19 for a one-time payment, which seems like a good deal. I want to see how well it works for me and if it's as good as it sounds. I'm excited to try it out and maybe talk about it later.

In contrast to Postman, Bruno aims to be an offline-first API client which stores requests in a local folder. You can still collaborate using Git, but everything else happens on your machine. Bruno turns out to be a great solution when you just want to run HTTP requests. It supports a lot of features you might know from Postman or Insomnia (set environment variables, several authentication methods, and scripted tests, to name a few). Looking at the roadmap, the amount of these is only going to increase.